October 2019 Chess Game

The game shown here was played against my chess applet, the Homeostatic Chess Player, a computer program I wrote in the first year of this century.

English Opening

I played white, minimal look ahead is six tempi. October 23-24.

	White	Black
1.	c4	Nc6
2.	Nc3	e6
3.	Nf3	a5      a5 is often played after white's a3, but here it's premature.
4.	d4	Ra7     Black is wasting time.
5.	e4	Be7

Position after move 5.

6.	Bd3	Nb4     Nb4 is useless and wastes more time.
7.	Be2	Ra8     More time wasting by black!
8.	a3	Na6
9.	O-O	c6
10.	Re1	d6      White has established a strong center and there's very little to be done about it.

Position after move 10.

11.	Bf4	Nf6     
12.	h3	O-O
13.	Qc2	Nh5
14.	Bh2	Kh8
15.	Ra1d1	Qb6     Black really hasn't much better than this rather useless queen move.

Position after move 15.

16.	d5	c6xd5   White begins to open lines for attack.
17.	e4xd5	Bd7     Black is still developing.
18.	Bd3	g6      Black parries the threat to take the king's rook pawn but at a cost of weakening the black squares in front of the king.
19.	Qd2	e5      White prepares to take advantage of the weak squares on the king side while black locks the center.
20.	Qh6	Qxb2    White sacrifices a pawn to get a solid grip on the king side.

Position after move 20.

21.	Ne4	Qxa3    White brings another piece to bear while black foolishly accepts the second pawn.
22.	Ne4g5	Nf6     Black doesn't see the next sacrifice coming.
23.	Nxe5	dxe5    No good moves are left for black. Checkmate is coming.
24.	Bxe5 Black resigns

Position after move 24.

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